Life magazine—in an alarming article that asked, “Do the Homosexuals, Like the Communists, Intend to Bury Us?”

Clinton called as soon as he received Mixner’s letter to assure him, “Hillary and I will always be your friends and you can count on us . . .You’re doing the right thing.”

Bill Clinton, avowed champion of gay people, had virtually killed the same-sex marriage movement.

There she met Evan Wolfson. He convinced her that marriage would be the surest shield against society’s contemptuous abuse of those in same-sex relationships.

A thousand gays—many of them more willing to come out for a party than they’d been to come out for campaign work—dressed formally in suits and ties despite the South Florida weather, now stood stunned and tearful, looking up at the screens that told them that most of their neighbors loathed them.

The majority opinion, written by Judge Vito Titone, established new criteria—along the lines Rubenstein suggested—for determining what a family is.

The reports showed that under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, investigations of lesbian and gay service members were “as bad, if not worse” than before.

Barney Frank quipped to conservative Iowa congressman Steve King, who’d fought on the floor against the bill, “If hate crime legislation passes tomorrow, you’ll still be free to call me a fag.”

Protease inhibitors were made widely available in 1996. In that first year, deaths from AIDS in the big cities dropped about 50 percent. Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions melted away. Michael Petrelis, who’d screamed at the CDC conference in 1987, “Drugs into bodies now!” began taking protease inhibitors when his T-cell count dropped below 100.66 Like so